Learning resources for 6 year old

[newpersn]

Hi all

 

Bit of an odd request here. I'm after some writing, maths sheets and so on....

 

My 6 year old has problems where she can't concentrate in class and asking for sheets from the school is like blood out of stone. (My partner is dealing with the school for extra help)

 

On the plus her reading has gone up a level. She loves her arts and crafts and baking..

 

 

Thank you in advance

[psydii]

I cannot vouch for the efficacy merit of these:

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BBC Bitesize - KS1

[jdoyle]

worth taking a looking at resources on the TES website.

[Duranis]

Would also say TES and Twinkl. Have a look for a curriculum guide for that age and find stuff that fits in with it. As far as a remember at that age its things like counting to 100, learning to write letters, difference between capitals and lower case, etc.

 

If she isn't so too keen on it then you might need to take a slightly different approach. For example if she likes baking then make some cakes and use it as a maths lesson. For example have her measure stuff out, she puts in say 6oz of flour but needs 8oz, get her to work out how much more she needs. Have her count out chocolate chips to use as decoration, etc. Also count everything with her all the time, Windows on a house, lamp posts you drive past, etc. Try and make a game of as much of it as possible, for example whoever counts the most birds on a walk wins.

 

The writing is a little hard as you have to get them sitting still to do it. One thing I used to do with my oldest boy (he has ADHD/ASD) was that we would sit and make up a short story together (the more stupid/funny it is the better). I would write it out (keep it short) and then we would make up a little book and he would copy the writing into the book and draw pictures to go along with it. This not only gets them thinking about ideas but also gets them writing and they have something fun at the end of it. We ended up with quite a few little story books that we would read through from time to time. I think he still has a couple of them somewhere and he is 18 now

 

For the writing side of things as well get them doing things that will build up finger dexterity and muscles. My youngest struggled with writing because his hand used to cramp up and get sore very quickly. We got him doing a lot of things that used his fingers a lot (cutting with scissors, playing thumb wars and finger running games, etc) which helped him quite a bit.

 

My oldest really struggled if you sat him down with a worksheet and tried to go through it with him. We found that by just trying to add it into everyday life as much as possible he was much more receptive to it and actually wanted to do things.